Time: 10am- 12pm

Teacher: Amana Bromfield

Aim: Students learn how to hand-build and glaze a ceramic bird.

Objective: To hand-build using coils and slabs and, make slips and glazes and

sculpt at least one ceramic bird.

Mondays 6:30 - 8:30 pm (at Kil.n.it Studio)

Teacher: Cybele Cox

This is a hands on introduction to making ceramic forms with your most familiar tools: your hands. Explore a variety of clay techniques including pinching, slab building, coil building, interior supports, marbling, the pottery wheel and most importantly strong joining. Hand-building with clay is a technique that has been used since the earliest ages of man and is a popular way of making much contemporary art today. There is no limit to what you can make with clay!

Mondays 6.30 - 8.30pm

Teacher: Luke O'Connor

Mixed Business will allow students to experiment with clay using not one particular technique but instead combining both hand building and wheel throwing. This course will look at ways that the hands and the wheel can be used together to create ceramic forms, both functional and sculptural. Explore a range of making, joining and painting/decorating techniques and the variety of options that are available for use when working with the ceramic medium. This course is perfect for beginning or experienced makers. 

Tuesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Teacher: EJ Son

Technique Toolkit is a solid introduction to wheel throwing and hand building techniques.  The course is deliberately hands on with a focus on gaining practical skills.  You will experience different approaches and styles of of ceramic making, encouraging you to develop your own. 

Graduates of this course are encouraged to hone their skills in a beginners class: Training Wheels, Hands on or Mixed Business. 

Cost includes all materials, glazing and firing.

Wednesday 6:30pm - 8:30

Teacher: Eloise Rankine

Training Wheels introduces you to the difficult but rewarding skill of throwing on the potter’s wheel. This course will introduce students to the basic shapes of cylinders and bowls as well as a variety of techniques including centering, turning, throwing off the hump, joining, using bats and glazing. This course is designed for beginners or those looking for a refresher on all the basic skills involved with throwing on the wheel.

Thursday  7pm -9pm

Mixed Business will allow students to experiment with clay using not one particular technique but instead combining both hand building and wheel throwing. This course will look at ways that the hands and the wheel can be used together to create ceramic forms, both functional and sculptural. Explore a range of making, joining and painting/decorating techniques and the variety of options that are available for use when working with the ceramic medium. This course is perfect for beginning or experienced makers. 

Saturday 10am-12pm

Teacher: Sebastian Palmer

Technique Toolkit is a solid introduction to wheel throwing and hand building techniques.  The course is deliberately hands on with a focus on gaining practical skills.  You will experience different approaches and styles of of ceramic making, encouraging you to develop your own.  

Graduates of this course are encouraged to hone their skills in a beginners class: Training Wheels, Hands on or Mixed Business. 

Cost includes all materials, glazing and firing.

Date Night is your monthly opportunity to spend some time quality clay time with your girlfriend / boyfriend / sibling / best-friend / tinder date. 

Come get messy as a couple ! 

One work from each student made on date night will be finished and glazed by kil.n.it technicians and able to be picked up approx. 2 weeks after the class.

$120 is per couple

- Please book for 12pm on your preferred date - No Buff Raku Trachyte (BRT Clay) To be fired due to sulphur content and erosion on kilns 

Any firing schedules or temperatures welcome up to 1280'c. Base plate is 60cm x 60cm and 85cm high internally. Artist can be present for packing. 

What is the process?
Ceramics need to be fired twice. The first firing is called 'Bisque' and the second is the glaze firing. 
After you have booked, please come and drop your work at Kilnit. We will contact you when your work is ready for collection!

Glazing:
If you would like like to do your own glazing, you are more than welcome! Please purchase your own glaze, making sure to be buy the right glaze for the correct firing temperature. We recommend buying a mid-fire glaze that can go to 1220 degrees celsius or cone 6. Please book your work into a bisque and mid-fire glaze firing via our regular firing service channels on this website. Cost wise this will be the cheaper.

Please allow up to 4 weeks for your work to be complete. 

Please email hello@kil-n-it.com with an image of  you work to book in we and will send you an invoice 

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to get in touch